Reply to: Uberdoomed in Belgium

[darmstadt]

The snag is every advert I've ever seen for IT contracts in banking say "must have banking experience", which is fine if you have any but excludes everyone else.

I've worked in a number of banks but have absolutely no banking experience. As a systems programmer, you're installing/configuring/administrating the operating system and applications. You're doing nothing with any banking or financial applications yet try to explain that to an agent.

[Mich the Tester]

Not yet - I think you've got data mining and analysis there as well.

You beat me to it. I was going to suggest something about data warehouses.

[AlfredJPruffock]

Well as I see it companies talk a whole lot of tulipe to get you to buy their products, especially banks, so bulltulipting to sell your own services must be acceptable business practice for them.

I’m not saying you should lower yourself to lying on your CV, but talking up limited experience is no different to the way every large business advertises it’s products.

Well having worked in that sector - the reason that they want you to have previous banking experience is so that you know what youre letting yourself in for.

I think it was the Dalai Lama , or was it Terry Butcher - who said :

Bank of England
No place for a Gentleman

[Doggy Styles]

For the CV

Extensive banking sector experience - specialising in fraud reduction systems.

Think that should cover it

Not yet - I think you've got data mining and analysis there as well.

[Mich the Tester]

For the CV

Extensive banking sector experience - specialising in fraud reduction systems.

Think that should cover it

Well done. That's a booming business in hard times.

[Unicorn]

So.....

For the CV

Extensive banking sector experience - specialising in fraud reduction systems.

Think that should cover it

[Mich the Tester]

Not a problem.

If rooting around a condemned warehouse looking through thousands of boxes containing millions of cheques for the minute number which had been used by fraudsters. After finding the cheques (while wearing plastic gloves in case fingerprints were left), place them in a plastic bag and deliver them to the fraud department.

Does that count as banking experience ?

yes; you could possibly call it 'forensic accounting' or 'risk management' or something like that.

[Unicorn]

Banking experience

Not a problem.

If rooting around a condemned warehouse looking through thousands of boxes containing millions of cheques for the minute number which had been used by fraudsters. After finding the cheques (while wearing plastic gloves in case fingerprints were left), place them in a plastic bag and deliver them to the fraud department.

Does that count as banking experience ?

this was many years ago when people actually wrote cheques, millions of them.

[Mich the Tester]

I just said - I was thrown out of Barclays for swearing at a counter clerk - that was good enough to get me into a major investment bank.

Three months later - the banking sector was up in soke.

Jings !

Well as I see it companies talk a whole lot of tulipe to get you to buy their products, especially banks, so bulltulipting to sell your own services must be acceptable business practice for them.

I’m not saying you should lower yourself to lying on your CV, but talking up limited experience is no different to the way every large business advertises it’s products.

[AlfredJPruffock]

The snag is every advert I've ever seen for IT contracts in banking say "must have banking experience", which is fine if you have any but excludes everyone else.

I just said - I was thrown out of Barclays for swearing at a counter clerk - that was good enough to get me into a major investment bank.

Three months later - the banking sector was up in soke.

Jings !

[Mich the Tester]

The snag is every advert I've ever seen for IT contracts in banking say "must have banking experience", which is fine if you have any but excludes everyone else.

Oh bugger that just blag it.

[OwlHoot]

Hard luck. Give it a few months; there’s going to be so much regulation thrown at the banks before long that things will pick up.

The snag is every advert I've ever seen for IT contracts in banking say "must have banking experience", which is fine if you have any but excludes everyone else.

[AlfredJPruffock]

Alfie my friend, how are you?

Remember Poetry day and W. H. Auden?

Aye McBain

Good to hear from you again !

The Friday Poetry Corner is alive and well and was published today - alas !

Folks dont seem to have much interest in poetry these days .

How are you keeping ?



'Why do you want to write poetry?' If the young man answers, 'I have important things I want to say,' then he is not a poet. If he answers, 'I like hanging around words listening to what they say,' then maybe he is going to be a poet."

WH Auden

[Unicorn]

Thanks...

..for the link Mich.

Currently it checking out. Sadly when coming to Belgium I decided to try and learn French not Dutch. Not the best when looking at NL.

[AlfredJPruffock]

Well I didnt care much either for the cloggies - but made a few bob in my time there - I heard theyve shutdown the smart shops and looking at closing down the cofeeshops - so yeah youre probably right - still I had a good laugh in retrospect.